Ken Coleman

Bio

Ken Coleman, Operating Partner, joined Endeavor in 2008 following a career as a senior operating executive and then as a strategy advisor to businesses in a several industries. For the past decade, Mr. Coleman has advised the CEOs and Boards of entrepreneurial businesses ranging from startup ventures to mature turnarounds on strategies for development and growth, with particular focus on product/market strategies, operating plans and financial planning. These companies employed a wide range of technologies in a various industries including medical devices, communications electronics, sports products, internet software and services and clean-tech chemistries. In several instances, Mr. Coleman assumed an interim operating role as CEO, COO or CFO. Prior to his advisory career, Mr. Coleman was a senior executive in both the sports equipment and communications electronics industries. As Group President and a Director of Bell Sports Corporation during both its private equity and public phases, he was responsible for leading Bell’s efforts to grow and dominate the bicycle helmet market in the 1980s and 1990s. Previous to Bell Sports, Mr. Coleman was Senior Vice President of Times Fiber Communications, where he spearheaded a product development strategy that returned TFC to market leadership. As Vice President Marketing and then General Manager of General Instrument’s Jerrold Cable Television Electronics Division, Mr. Coleman led the development of the product and marketing strategies that enabled GI to dominate that industry during its highest growth period in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. Mr. Coleman began his career in the chemical industry with Cabot Corporation after earning an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Yale.